Research outputs and knowledge sharing
Publications
BOOK CHAPTER: Heinemeyer, Catherine (2017) 'Embracing indeterminacy in participatory storytelling'. Chapter in Reason, Matthew and Rowe, Nick (forthcoming), Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art, London: Methuen Drama.
A copy is available on request.
A copy is available on request.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE: Reason, Matthew and Heinemeyer, Catherine (2016) ‘Storytelling, Story-retelling, Storyknowing: Towards a Participatory Practice of Storytelling.’ Research in Drama Education 21:4, pp.558-573.
Paper in full: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569783.2016.1220247
Abstract
This paper presents a practice-led research project that investigates how people from diverse community and school groups understand and respond to oral storytelling. Run in collaboration with York Theatre Royal, the project uses art form workshops (drama, music, fine art) to actively invite participants to make the transition from listeners to storytellers. This paper places these workshops within a theoretical framework that draws upon understandings of storytelling developed by Benjamin, Bruner, Kearney and Wilson. We argue: 1) that through the process of (re)telling participants demonstrate a particular kind of embedded knowledge that we have termed ‘storyknowing’; and 2) that inhabiting a story in this open-ended way has intrinsic value. We present a typology of strategies for retelling adopted by the participants and reflect on our development of a participatory practice of storytelling.
Paper in full: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569783.2016.1220247
Abstract
This paper presents a practice-led research project that investigates how people from diverse community and school groups understand and respond to oral storytelling. Run in collaboration with York Theatre Royal, the project uses art form workshops (drama, music, fine art) to actively invite participants to make the transition from listeners to storytellers. This paper places these workshops within a theoretical framework that draws upon understandings of storytelling developed by Benjamin, Bruner, Kearney and Wilson. We argue: 1) that through the process of (re)telling participants demonstrate a particular kind of embedded knowledge that we have termed ‘storyknowing’; and 2) that inhabiting a story in this open-ended way has intrinsic value. We present a typology of strategies for retelling adopted by the participants and reflect on our development of a participatory practice of storytelling.
Selected conference papers and abstractsContact me at [email protected] to request copies of papers in full.
'Story as research in postnormal times', keynote talk at How The Gypsies Got Their Music: The Future of Storytelling Research, University of Warwick, 28th Nov 2016.
‘Disentangling voices in dialogue: the storytelling exchange as a model for reporting research’, paper in ‘Authorship, language and rigour in the ‘second wave’ of applied practice research’, mini-panel with El Stannage at Theatre and Performing Arts Research (TAPRA) annual conference, Applied and Social Theatre Working Group, 5-7 Sept 2016.
‘Young People’s Voices in the Policy Process: must we tell our own stories?’ Storytelling and Justice Symposium, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, 13 May 2016.
‘The school storyteller-in-residence: the power and the limitations of an ‘osmotic’ approach to disseminating PaR’. Value and Virtue conference, York St John University, 9-10 June 2015.
‘Neither potion nor polemic, but a provocation: teenagers’ engagement with myth’. Myths in the Social Sciences symposium, University of York, 13 May 2015.
‘Telling Tales with Teenagers: stories from the front line’. Tales Beyond Borders symposium, University of Leeds, 23 April 2015. Talk in full here.
'Storytelling and drama with teenagers: who provides the raw materials for cultural democracy?' TAPRA Conference, 3-5 Sept 2014.
'Was that a true one? Teenagers and traditional stories'. Postgraduate Symposium, Theatre, Film and Television Department of the University of York, 2 June 2014.
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Knowledge sharing with non-academic audiences'Blending it: Impressions from ‘Storyknowing,’ a symposium and festival of storytelling and theatre with adolescents', article in Storylines, the journal of the Society for Storytelling, Autumn 2016.
'Rites of Passage Re-Written': performance based on my practice with adolescents at 'A Bit Craic', Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2nd Sept 2016
'STORYKNOWING: A Festival and Symposium of Storytelling and Theatre with Young People', 22-23 April 2016. I curated this event and made both a workshop and performance contribution. 'Wormwood in the Garden': A collaborative performance with Imogen Godwin which was performed at the Love Arts festival and conference on arts in mental health, June/July 2015, and shown as part of a talk at Higher York's Everybody's Business conference for schools, colleges and universities (25 Nov 2015) on young people's mental health. ‘Close Encounters in Another World: what storytelling can do’. Workshop for mental health professionals at Safe and Sound, CAMHS conference, Burnley, 13 Nov 2015. ‘A Dialogue in Another Room: Meetings with Young People Through Story’. UK Council for Psychotherapy Children’s Faculty Listen to My Story training event, York St John University, 4 July 2015. (see participant handouts on Maple House page) 'The Story of Rob(y/i)n: digital story produced with young people at Maple House as a submission to the 'Discover' enquiry into the recommissioning of CAMHS in York and North Yorkshire. Shown by two Maple House residents and myself at 'Discover' professionals' workshop, January 2015. 'ACTING UP: Storytelling in the devising process'. This 'catalogue document' of my practice-as-research, at Acting Up youth theatre for young people with additional needs, also served as a guide to Acting Up's practice for its funders, local schools and other partners.
‘A meta-narrative of a storytelling workshop with adolescent young people’, talk for Narrative and Adolescence seminar, International Centre for Arts and Narrative (ICAN), York Theatre Royal, 10 March 2014. See film below.
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